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middle. (Don's Mill.) A pyramidal shrub. South of Europe, in the region 

 of the JMeiliterranean ; and Cunnemara, on the western coast of Ireland, 

 Height 4 ft. to 6 ft. sometimes 10 ft. Cultivated in 1596. Flowers red, 

 with dark anthers ; March to May. 



The hardiest of arboreous heaths in Eritish gardens ; though plants at 

 Syon, which had stood upwards of half a century, and were above 10 ft. 

 high, were killed to the ground by the winter of 1837-8. 



Genus III. 



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CALLU^NA Sal. The Callun'a. Lin. Sj/st. Octandria Monogynia. 



Identification. S;i!isbury in Lin. Soc. Trans., G. p. 317. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 828. 



Synonyme. rlca sp. Lin, ayid others. 



Derivation. The name of CallOna is derived from kalluno, which, as Sir J. E. Smith objerves, " is 

 doubly suitable ; whether, with Mr. Salisbury and Dr. Hull, we take it to express a cleansing 

 property, brooms being made of ling ; or whether we adopt the more common sense of the word, 

 to ornament or adorn, which is very applicable to the flowers." {Eng. Flora, ii. p. 224.) 



Gen. Char. Calyx 4-parted, membranous, coloured, furnished with 4 bracteas 

 at the base. Corolla carapanulate, 4-lobed, shorter than the calyx. Staineiis 

 enclosed. Filaments dilated. Anthers bipartite, biappendiculate at the base; 

 cells of anthers mucronulate, dehiscing lengthwise. Stigma capitate. Capsule 

 with a septicidal dehiscence. Seeds ovoid, smooth. {Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; acerose, trigonal, obtuse, 

 very short, imbricating in 4 rows, having the margins revolute, and tlit- 

 base sagittate. Flowers disposed in long, terminal, spicate racemes. Undcr- 

 shrub, small, spreading ; native of Europe on poor soils. 



<u 1. C. vuLG.i^Ris ^a/. The common Ling, 0)' i/ffl^/zcr. 



Identification. Salisb. Lin. Trans., 6. p. 317. ; Eng. Flora, 2. p. 224. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 828. 

 Synonymes. Er\ca. vulgaris Lin. Sp. p. 501. ; la Bruy^re, Fr. ; Heide, Ger. ; Lyng, Dan. ; Liung, 



Sved. ; Brentoli, Cecchia, or Scopa, Ital. ; Brezo, Span. ; Urze, Port. ; Weresk, Muss. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1013. ; and our fg. 1035. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 3-cornered in a transverse section of 

 them, arrow-shaped at the base, obtuse at the point, revolute in a 

 the lateral margins, imbricate in 4 rows. Flowers disposed in 

 long, terminal, spicate racemes. (Dons Mill.) A small, spread- 

 ing, evergreen shrub. Europe, plentiful in Britain. Height 

 6 in. to 3 ft. Flowers purplish ; July to September. 



Varieties. 



t^ C. V, 1 purpurea. Flowers purplish red. 



1035.C.TuiKiins. 



Racemes short. Fiow- 



Racemes short. Flowers 

 Flowers purplish 



1^ C. V. 2 spuria. Branches tufted 



ers purplish red. 

 ^ C. V. 3 decumbens. Branches decumbent 



purplish red. 

 ^ C. V. 4^ tomentosa. Leaves and branches v/oolly. 



red. . 



"- C. V. 5 alba. Flowers white, less crowded. Corolla shorter. 

 ^ C. V. ^fiore pleno. Flowers double, pale purplish red. 

 *- C. V. 7 fdliis variegdtis. Leaves variegated. Flowers purplish. 

 *~- C. V. S aurea. Leaves variegated with yellow. 

 2- C. ti. 9 coccinea. Flowers deep red. 

 ^ C. V. 10 spicdta. Racemes long. Flowers red or white. 

 s- C.v. 11 and 12. Two varieties are mentioned by Sir W. J. Hooker, 



as being in cultivation in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they 



have retained their difierences for years. They have both pubes- 



